After a
summer-long writers’ retreat turns out to be an internet scam, Amber Wheatleigh
finds herself standing beside her broken-down car on a dirt road in the
Colorado foothills. When a local rancher by the name of Travis Bradley offers
her a place to stay for the night, she hesitantly accepts, and before she knows
it she has agreed to spend the summer cooking and cleaning for Travis and his ranch
hands.
Something about
Travis intrigues Amber, and her interest in him is multiplied many times over
upon her discovery of a diary kept by his late wife Heather before her tragic
death. The diary speaks of a beautiful, deep, and lasting love, but also of a
man willing to take his young wife in hand… and put her over his knee for a
sound spanking.
This dominant
side of Travis captivates and excites Amber and she spends as much time with
him as she can manage, but when he learns of her discovery of Heather’s diary
his anger at Amber’s uninvited intrusion into his past threatens to end their budding
romance. Desperate to win his forgiveness, Amber makes a bold request—that
Travis punish her as he would have punished Heather—and he reluctantly accepts.
Even as the
sting of his switch still burns on her bottom, Travis knows in his heart that
Amber can bring true joy into his life in a way that nothing has since
Heather’s death. But can he let go of the past and take hold of a future with
her, and can this feisty writer learn to love—and obey—her firm-handed rancher?
Publisher’s
Note: The Writer and the Rancher contains
spankings of an adult woman, including domestic discipline in a contemporary
setting. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.
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